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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

[nián]
  1. 1. noun [时间单位] year
    this year
  2. 2. noun [元旦或春节] New Year
    celebrate Spring Festival
  3. 3. noun [岁数] age
    过半百
    over fifty years old
  4. 4. noun [阶段] age
    old age
    childhood
  5. 5. noun [时代] era
    明朝末
    the end of the Ming dynasty
    in recent years
  6. 6. noun [年成] harvest
  7. 7. adjective annual
    annual salary

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

[nián]
  1. 1. noun year; yr
    three years
    复一
    year after year; year in year out
  2. 2. noun age
    过六十
    over sixty (years old)
  3. 3. noun a period in one's life
    childhood
    old age
  4. 4. noun a period in history
    in recent years
    明朝初
    at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty
  5. 5. noun harvest
    a bumper harvest year; a good year
  6. 6. noun New Year
  7. 7. adjective annual; yearly
    产量
    annual output; annual yield
  8. 8. adjective of or for New Year
    special purchases for the Spring Festival
  9. 9. measure word year
    老艺术家们花了整整一时间完成了组雕。
    It took the old artists an entire year to finish the series of sculptures.
    真没想到,短短一时间这位歌手就大红大紫了。
    I didn't imagine that the singer would become famous this year.

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

[nián]
  1. 1. 本指庄稼成熟,引申为一中庄稼的收成
    成。
  2. 2. 时间单位,即地球环绕太阳运行一周的时间(我国古代黄河流域庄稼每成熟一次,所以把庄稼成熟一次的时间叫一)。
    举行一次
    五载
    产量。
  3. 3. 岁数
    富力强
    龄。
  4. 4. 人一生中按龄划分的阶段
  5. 5. 时期
    清朝末
  6. 6. 节,新的一开始的那天及其前后的几天
  7. 7. 有关节的(用品)
    礼。

Examples

鲁迅诞生于1881◇19217月,伟大的中国共产党诞生了
给您拜个早(晚)
Let me wish you an early (a belated, late) Happy New Year.
这些诗词的本事,久失考。
The original story these poems were based on has long been lost.
水门事件是1972发生在美国的一件政治丑闻。
The Watergate affair was a U.S. political scandal that broke in 1972.
我是1930出生的。
I was born in 1930.
他早已过六十,但毫不见老。
He's well over sixty, but he doesn't look at all old.
方二八
be only sixteen years of age
方二十
be just twenty years old
科举制是在1905废止的。
The imperialist examinations system was abolished in 1905.
小王是1982从部队复员的。
Xiao Wang was demobilized from the army in 1982.

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